Hajime Isayama

Hajime Isayama is a Japanese mangaka.
* He was born on August 29, 1986, in Ōyama, Ōita Prefecture, Japan.
* He began submitting manga works to contests while attending Hita Rinko Senior High School.
* After graduating, he matriculated in the manga design program of the arts department at Kyushu Designer Gakuen.
* In 2006, he applied for the Magazine Grand Prix known as MGP promoted by Kodansha Ltd. and a short version of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) was given the "Fine Work" award.
* At age twenty, he moved to Tokyo and worked at an Internet café in order to pursue a career in writing manga.
* His first series, Attack on Titan (2009–2021), became one of the best-selling manga series of all time with 110 million copies in circulation as of September 2022.
* He has received numerous awards for his work, including the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011 and the Harvey Award in 2014.
* Isayama is currently working on a new manga series called "Chainsaw Man".